MA’A NONU can claim a hat-trick on a global scale so vast that it has never been done before. His reintroduction to the Top 14 means that the longestlasting All Black has signed for three teams in different continents over a period of not much more than a year.
He has gone from San Diego Legion on the Pacific shores of California to Auckland Blues and resurfaced on the Med back at Toulon, at the age of 38, prompting Toulon owner Bernard Lemaitre to describe him as ‘the daddy of the backs’.
The leap from coaching in Wellington club rugby to playing in the most grueling of d...